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I've been at the Brooklyn Museum for about a year-and-a-half now, which is also as long as I've been a resident of our fair… »April 30, 2013: Fund for African American Art: New Acquisition
As many of you know, the Brooklyn Museum launched the Fund for African American Art a few years ago. This ambitious initiative,… »April 25, 2013: Teaching with a 3D Simulacrum
When Shelley and David brought up the idea of 3D printing, my not-so-inner tech geek and my really-blatantly-outer education… »April 18, 2013: Join us at #table17
The Brooklyn Artists Ball is coming up next week and it's an event that we are super excited about; this year's ball celebrates… »April 17, 2013: Replicating a 19th Century Statue with 21st Century Tech
My first exposure to the world of 3D printing took place in 2009 approximately 500 feet under the Earth's surface in a former… »
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Category Archives: Recent Acquisitions
Fund for African American Art: New Acquisition
As many of you know, the Brooklyn Museum launched the Fund for African American Art a few years ago. This ambitious initiative, which was covered in the New York Times, is designed to help us acquire works created by African … Continue reading
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Paris and Puerto Rico Unite in Brooklyn Acquisition
On June 6th, our recently acquired painting by Francisco Oller (1833-1917), the most important Puerto Rican artist of the nineteenth century, will go on view in the Museum’s 3rd-floor Beaux-Arts Court alongside Impressionist landscapes by Oller’s Paris masters and peers, … Continue reading
The Installation of Reception
Through the generosity of Beth Rudin DeWoody, the Museum recently acquired a multiple component installation piece made by the artist Vadis Turner, which will be included as part of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The installation titled … Continue reading
Hank Willis Thomas
One major recent acquisition is Hank Willis Thomas’ series “Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America.” The whole series consists of 82 images, two for each year from 1968 to 2008, and the acquisition includes half of the series: one … Continue reading
Dash Snow
The Museum recently acquired some great new photography. Much of it will be on view this coming August when we open a new show with material from the Contemporary Collection. In this delicate group of black and white photographs, Dash … Continue reading
Sarah Baley
Sarah Baley’s show “Bois” opened at Collette Blanchard Gallery on the Lower East Side last Thursday night and we are very happy to have this image by Sarah in the collection. Sarah Baley (American, born 1969). Dug, 2005. From the … Continue reading
Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part VII
I can’t believe that it’s been more than a year since my last posting on this topic. I guess I got distracted by other tasks. I was recently asked to “wrap it up,” so here it goes… In my first … Continue reading
Pandora’s Book
If Marshall McLuhan were a gypsy and his teacup the art world, the tea leaves would be artists’ books. —Ingrid Sishey (National Arts Guide, vol. 1, no.1, Jan-Feb. 1979, p.2-3) This quote resonates so well with me as it points … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary Art, Libraries & Archives, Recent Acquisitions
Tagged artistbook, website
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Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part VI
The search for an object to purchase in honor of the soon-to-be-retired Curator of Asian Art began more than eight months before I arrived at the Brooklyn Museum, so I’m a little foggy on all the details of the earliest … Continue reading
Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part V
Armed with the “wish list” and approximate budget I described in my previous entries, the team of curators and trustees who were interested in finding a suitable object to acquire in honor of Amy Poster went out into the market. … Continue reading
Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part IV
I have been discussing the process of acquiring a new masterpiece for the collection, and in my first installment, I introduced the object, a bronze image of Shiva from southern India. This sculpture was cast by the master artisans who … Continue reading
Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part III
Last time I wrote about how we happened to have the money and the initiative to look for a major new acquisition for the Asian collection. This time, I’m going to talk about how we developed a shopping list before … Continue reading
Posted in Arts of Asia, Newly on View, Recent Acquisitions
Tagged bronze, chola, exhibitions, shiva
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Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part II
In my previous entry, I introduced a wonderful object, an Indian bronze of Shiva from the tenth century. I am tracing the way that this work of art entered the Brooklyn Museum’s collection in 2007, offering an introduction to the … Continue reading
Posted in Arts of Asia, Newly on View, Recent Acquisitions
Tagged bronze, chola, shiva
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Purchasing a major work of art for the collection
I have been an art museum curator for almost eight years now, and I can tell you that the one aspect of my job that has consistently offered the headiest mixture of fun and stress has been the search for … Continue reading
Earlier this week, we installed two striking new photographs in the Museum’s American Identities galleries on the fifth floor, Soldier Claxton and Soldier Mickelson. They are part of a large series of soldiers’ portraits by the New York-based photographer Suzanne … Continue reading

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